“No, if I picked one favorite, favorite food, it’s French fries.” The audience began to laugh. “Okay? It’s French fries,” Obama continued. “I can’t stop eating them.” As the students laughed more, the First Lady quickly returned to her role as advocate of health eating. “But eat your vegetables.”

“We know that we can’t lie around on the couch eating french fries and candy bars and expect our kids to eat carrots and run around the block,” she said, citing research that showed that kids that have one obese parent or more are more than twice as likely to be obese themselves.

The First Lady reminded the audience that parents shouldn’t tell their children to “do what we say and not as we do.”

“So what I do is give malia 50 cents and tell her to ride her bike to McD’s and get me a large fry. That way the child gets the healthy exercise she needs and I get my fries. Sometimes malia says 50 cents ain’t enough. I tell her to make it enough. Gnomesane?”